is the Director of Vital-IT Group in Lausanne as well as the Swiss-Prot Group in Geneva. He received a Ph.D in immunology at the Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research and the Institute of Biochemistry. He worked on the development of the Database of Interacting Proteins (DIP) under the supervision of Prof. David Eisenberg at the University of California Los Angeles. He then became the head of Translational Bioinformatics at Serono (now Merck Serono) where his group developed computational methodologies in the area of proteomics, microarray and genetics. He is one of the Principal investigators of the ENFIN project aiming at providing methods in dynamical systems modeling. Ioannis Xenarios is UNIL full Professor ad personam, affiliated with the CIG, since August 2010

attained his Bachelor's degree from George Washington University in Clinical Laboratory Science/Medical Technology. During this time he worked at the George Washington University Hospital for approximately 8 months. In 2008, Ali graduated with a Master's degree in Biotechnology from Georgetown University. Lastly, he worked at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in the United States of America for a year. Currently, he is doing his PhD at University of Lausanne/Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. The focus of the project is Single Nucleotide Variations in High throughput sequencing.

studied Business Information Technology in Espoon Kauppaoppilaitos obtaining Datanomi degree in 1993. He worked as IT support and administrator before starting to work as a Web developer in Vevey, Switzerland. Was one of the main developers for pioneering digital photo service in Europe.

studied agronomy at the ENITAC where he obtains his Master’s Degree in Engineering and a Professional Master in plant culture. Then he moved to Marseille to study crystallography and bioinformatics, and obtained a Master of "Bioinformatics, Structural Biology and Genomic" and his PhD on "The annotation and substrate specificity prediction of carbohydrate active enzymes" at the AFMB laboratory. In 2009 he moved to Lyon as a postdoc in the LBBE laboratory where he improved the PRIAM methodology, a method for the automatic annotation of enzymes. In 2011 he joined Vital-IT where he his involved in automatic metabolic network reconstructions for the MetaNetX project.

received in 2001 a PhD in computational chemistry from the University of Zurich. He then was hired by the biotech company Geneprot where he first worked as a bioinformatician and then as project manager in charge of both development and operations of the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). In 2005, he joined the software company Genebio as project manager where he coordinated the development and release of 2 commercial software products. He has been certified in project management (PMP) since 2008 and received an executive MBA from the University of Geneva in 2010. He joined Vital-IT in 2012 as project/business development manager.

studied Biology at Université de Lausanne, where he obtained his Master in Biology. He also obtained a Licence es Sciences with subjects Informatics and Biology. After a musical parenthesis, he worked at BCF-SIB on prediction of Coiled coil domains, using HMM and MAMOT. In parallel, he worked on several projects as a web developer. He then worked at CHUV, in collaboration with Vital-IT on enzymatic pathways and gene prediction in Pneumocystis spp. In 2009, he joined the Stratified Medicine research group at Merck Serono in Geneva, working on biomarkers discovery. In 2012, he joined the Vital-IT group where he is involved in analysis of genomics and proteomics data for the IMIDIA project and various other research projects.

studied Biology at the University of Geneva before obtaining successfully her Master in Proteomics and Bioinformatics in 2008. She joined Vital-IT during her Master project and obtained her Ph.D. in Bioinformatics late 2012. She works in the field of the genome assembly and of comparative genomics of Leishmania species.

studied undergraduate biology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2009), followed by a Masters degree in Proteomics and Bioinformatics at the University of Geneva (2011). During that time she worked on developing mass spectrometry identification approaches both at experimental and software level. After doing an internship at a software development company in Geneva she joined the Vital-IT group as a PhD candidate. Currently, she is involved in application and development of computational methodologies in biological systems modeling.

studied pharmacy at the University of Bamako (Mali) and obtained a Pharm. D. degree in 2005. He worked as research assistant on malaria field in collaboration with Tulane University (USA) from 2005 to 2008. He obtained a master in genomics and experimental biology at University of Lausanne in 2010 and is currently involved in a Ph.D. program related to genomics of Pneumocystis and Taphrina species.

studied neurobiology at Paris-6 University, where he obtained a Master’s degree in neurosciences in 1984. As PhD student at Collège de France, he worked on the functional development of the visual system using electrophysiological exploration, and initiated computational approaches to model and integrate experimental data. He completed his education in computer science with a Master’s degree in “Image and Artificial Intelligence” obtained from Sup’ Telecom in 1991, and then joined Thomson-CSF (now Thales) to develop neural network models for object identification and tracking, and to design neuromorphic electronic devices for smart image sensors. In 1997 he joined the biotech company Genset, later acquired by Serono (now Merck Serono), where he was involved in image/signal interpretation, genomic mining for active peptides, and pharmacogenomics of clinical trials for biomarker discovery. In 2013 he joined the Vital-IT group, where he is involved in analysis of genomics data for the NRP-63 and AgedBrainSYSBIO projects.

studied theoretical physics at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He obtained his diploma in 2004 and a PhD in 2008 in the field of quantum magnetism. He then moved to the University of Lausanne where he worked as Senior FNS researcher, using numerical simulations to study the 3D organization of chromatin fibers in cell nuclei. In 2011 he joined the Vital-IT group.

took a Master's in Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1987 and then continued to a PhD thesis at CERN in Geneva. In 1993 he became a database developer for the Cardiology Center of the Geneva university hospital, and in 1997 joined the future Swiss Institute of BioInformatics as a systems engineer. From 2000 to 2003 he worked as High Performance Computing manager at GeneProt and led its effort to set up what was at the time the world's most powerful civilian computer farm. He is now the IT manager for Vital-IT.

was raised in France. He then moved to Germany to study Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern, followed by the university of Lausanne where he obtained a diploma in Biology in 1998. He also obtained a Masters degree in Bioinformatics in Lausanne in 2001. Immediately after, he started working at the SIB in Dr. Philipp Bucher's group, maintaining the sequence analysis package 'pftools' as well as system administrative tasks on the SIB's Lausanne computer infrastructure. In 2004, he joined the Vital-IT team, working as junior system administrator and software programmer specializing in adapting and optimizing life-science applications for the Vital-IT cluster architecture.

obtained a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Geneva. He then moved to Neuchatel to work at CSEM in embedded systems. Fulfilling his childhood dream of working in video games - particularly 3D graphics rendering - he moved to Santa Monica, California where he worked for Activision for over 4 years. Following an opportunity to join a startup company building a novel search engine, he moved to New York City where he worked at BusyTonight for over 2 years. Because the hope of being acquired by Google didn't materialize, he then did some freelance work on a video editing application, while getting ready for a 8 months honey-moon trip throughout the South-East Pacific. Back to his roots in Geneva, he worked for 3 years as a bioinformatician for SCAHT (Swiss Center for Human Toxicology) and the Biomedical Proteomics Research Group (BPRG) at the University of Geneva. During this time, he developed EasyProt, a platform for proteomics data analysis. In 2013, he joined both Vital-IT and the Proteomics Core Facility of the Medical Center of the University of Geneva, where he works on computational aspects of proteomics.

studied plant biology and biochemistry at the University of Lausanne. In the early nineties, during the course of his PhD, he pioneered the use of molecular biology in the Institute of Plant Biology, isolated and sequenced two genes of the glyoxylate cycle, built a molecular model for one of them and initiated the development of Swiss-PdbViewer. He obtained his PhD in 1995 and joined the group of Manuel Peitsch at GlaxoWellcome, where he contributed to the development of Swiss-Model. From 1996-2002, he also taught postgrade Structural Biology modules at the University of Geneva, EPFL and for the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.
During his 12 years at GlaxoSmithKline, he occupied positions of increasing responsibilities, led a group specialized in Evolutionary and Structural Bioinformatics and contributed to several drug discovery research programs.
Nicolas has been developing and optimizing computer software since 1979, and joined the Vital-IT team in 2008 where he continues the development of Swiss-PdbViewer, contributes his bioinformatics and biology expertise to research groups and develop specialized software to support research projects that necessitate high performance computing.

studied genetics at Nottingham University, UK and obtained a PhD from Imperial College, London on the genetics of the T cell receptor alpha gene locus in 1995. He then moved to Lausanne as a postdoc in the laboratory of Bernard Thorens where he cloned and characterized a new mammalian glucose transporter, GLUT8, and generated double Glp1/Gip receptor knockout mice. In 2000, he joined Serono (now Merck Serono) as a bioinformatician supporting drug discovery projects and developing methodologies for sequence analysis and research knowledge management. In 2010, he joined Vital-IT where he is involved in analysis of genomics and proteomics data for the Imidia project and various other research projects.

studied biology at the University of Lausanne where he obtained, in 1997, his Diploma in virology and molecular oncology and in 2001, his PhD in immunology. He then went on to obtain a Master in Bioinformatics from the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva in 2002. In 2002, he joined the Swiss EMBnet node at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics as Bioinformatician where he was responsible for organizing undergraduate and post-graduate courses, and was involved in teaching activities as well. He was also member of the EMBnet Education and Training Project Committee. In addition, he participated in providing help desk support to the life sciences community, which led to a number of collaborations, and was in charge of several web sites. In 2009, he joined the Vital-IT group where he continues these activities and is now a member of the SIB web-team.

has obtained a CFC (professional certificate) in agriculture followed by a Master’s degree in computer engineering from EPFL and Carnegie Mellon University. He then obtained a Ph.D. from EPFL with focus on a high performance reconfigurable processor and its software development environment. He started his professional career with activities in both academia (Systems Manager at ISREC) and industry (software developer at Xemics SA). In 1998 he joined the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research as Systems Manager (Office of Information Technology) and subsequently as Assistant Investigator in the Computational Genomics group and finally as project manager for the Melanoma sequencing project. In 2011 he joined the Vital-IT Group as Senior Scientist.

studied biology at Madurai Kamaraj University (India) with emphasis on bacterial genetics and also obtained her diploma in Bioinformatics from the same university. She then went on to obtain her Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the University of Lausanne in 2007. She worked as a post-doc also in the University of Lausanne before joining Vital-IT in Feb 2011.

is a physical chemist with a M.Sc. in chemical engineering and a Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry. In the summer of 2009 she joined the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics where she is involved in the development of new methods for protein modelling.

studied biology at the University of Lausanne, with emphases in plant systematics and mathematics, and got a diploma in microbiology from the same university. He also worked as a bioinformatician for a small start-up company. He joined Vital-IT in 2011 after completing a PhD in high-throughput phylogenomics of vertebrates and viruses with E. Zdobnov at the University of Geneva.

educated at Moscow State University as a physico-chemist in 1982. During the next 15 years, he was working at the Institute of Molecular Biology (Russia) doing both experimental assays (enzymatic kinetics and NMR) and modelling of protein structures. He obtained his PhD in biophysics on structure modelling of MHC-TCR protein complex in collaboration with the Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research (LICR) in Lausanne. He spent the next 8 years in Lausanne working for the LICR as a database administrator (DBA) and web developer in various bioinformatic projects. After joining the Vital-IT team in 2007, he continues to work as a DBA and developer on the MySQL and Oracle platform.

studied plant biology at the University of Lausanne where he obtained his diploma in 1999. He then obtained a master in bioinformatics from the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva in 2001. In 2005, he obtained his PhD on signaling pathways leading to plant defense by combining gene expression, proteomics and bioinformatics analyses. Since 2006 he is working at Vital-IT for the EuroDia european project on type 2 diabetes. He is developing a web-based relational database to store, annotate, combine and analyze gene expression data obtained with various technologies and different model organisms. This system offers user-friendly web interface to several bioconductor statistical packages. Robin is also involved in setting up openfludb, a database to share Influenza genetical and epidemiological data.

holds a PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Lausanne (2010). She started studying biology and then took an interest in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics for which she got a Master degree at the University of Paris XI (2005). During her PhD and her Post-doc at the Department of Medical Genetics (UNIL-CHUV/SIB), she mainly worked on the pharmacogenetics study of the Swiss HIV cohort data and on Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) on human phenotypic traits. She joined the Vital-IT group in April 2013 to analyze and follow-up various research projects and to take an active part in the SIB Education coordinating team.

studied Biology at the University of Lausanne where he obtained his Diploma in 2001. A year later he obtained a Master in Bioinformatics at the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne. He then worked in the field of web/software development for several years, mainly specializing into Java programming language. In 2006 he joined the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and quickly after that, Vital-IT team, as a bioinformatician/software developer. He has been involved since in the development of AssociationViewer, a flexible and scalable application for visualization of large-scale genomic data.

studied Plant Molecular Biology and obtained a PhD in 2004 at the University of Toulouse.  He then moved to the University of Geneva and later to the University of Lausanne where he made research on topics linked to environmental biology (plant genome response to UV damage, molecular interactions between plants from the same specie, environmental spreading of viruses). He joined the Vital-IT group in 2012 as an embedded bioinformatician. He works with Marco Pagni and Ian Sanders (UNIL/DEE) on the genomics of the plant symbiotic fungi Rhizopus intraradices.

holds a degree in foreign languages (English, Italian and German) and a Diploma of Executive Secretary. She also studied one year psychology at the University of Lausanne. She worked for several years in trust companies as secretary, before to join the Vital-IT team in 2007 and assist Prof Ioannis Xenarios.

studied biology at the University of Lyon where he obtained, in 1999, his Diploma in Population Biology and Ecosystems. He then went on to obtain a Master in Population Biology, Genetics and Eco- ethology (with a specialisation in Entomology) from the University of Tours. A year later he obtained a Master in Bioinformatics from the University of Paris 7.
In 2002, he joined the Genoplante consortium to cluster and annotate Sunflower ESTs, in Toulouse. In 2003, he joined the Genomic and Structural Information lab. (CNRS) in Marseilles, in collaboration with the Aventis pharmaceutical group, to work on Kinase proteins and on Multiple Sequence Alignments tools. Then, in 2006, he joined the Swiss EMBnet node at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Department of Ecology & Evolution (DEE) in Lausanne, as Bioinformatician. Since, for EMBnet, he is developing tools for the MyHits web server, maintaining and adding tools for our Soaplab-based Web Services. For the DEE, he is developing Selectome, a database of Positive Selection, Bgee, a database for Gene Expression Evolution, as well as doing system administration.
In 2009, he joined the Vital-IT group where he continues these activities and is now a member of the SIB web-team.

studied zoology at the University of Bern and obtained a PhD in population genetics in 2006. The aim of the PhD thesis was to reconstruct the demographic history of freshwater fishes in Switzerland. For this purpose he developed a numerical simulation model allowing simulating the demography of populations and species over time in a realistic spatially explicit environment. He used high throughput computation technics to perform simulations and estimate corresponding demographic and genetic parameters. At the same time he acquired a minor in informatics. He then moved to the University of Lausanne and worked there as a postdoc developing numerical simulation tools in the area of population and quantitative genetics. In 2011 he then joined the Vital-IT group.

studied Biology at the University of Geneva before obtaining a Master degree. She worked many years as biocurator in proteomic area, successively in GeneProt Inc, Meyrin, Switzerland, then in GeneBio, Geneva, Switzerland, as product specialist for an MS/MS identification software (Phenyx), before joining Vital-IT in January 2010, where she works as embedded annotator on various projects.

studied biology at the University of Neuchâtel and obtained a PhD in microbiology. In 1998, he joined the newly created Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and has since collaborated with several groups on topics related to sequence analysis, sequence automated annotation, database design and management and large-scale computation. He joined the Vital-IT team in 2005, with responsibility for the maintenance and development of the MyHits web server and associated database.
Marco Pagni was also a partner of the EMBRACE European funded project.

holds a joint Master's Degree in Proteomics and Bioinformatics (2009) from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), and a joint DEA in Information Systems (2006) from UNIGE and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). She previously developed web-based resources and interactive applications including e-learning modules. In 2008, for her Master's degree project, she joined Protein Analysis Facility at the Center of Integrative Genomics of the University of Lausanne (UNIL). At the end of 2009, she joined Vital-IT team as a Bioinformatician. She is involved in genome annotation and assembly projects in collaboration with the group of Prof. Keller, Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE), UNIL.

studied Biology at the University of Lausanne and obtained a Master (UV-induced apoptosis, 1996) and a PhD (new family of amino acid transporters, 2000) at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC). Following a Master in Bioinformatics, he joined GeneBio SA, Geneva in 2001, where he was mainly involved in bioinformatics training (development of an e-learning platform) and as product specialist for Melanie, a software for 2-DE gel image analysis. Since 2006, he has been a member of the SIB. In the Proteome Informatics group, he was involved in e-learning, whereas in the virtual ExPASy group he was in charge of the helpdesk for resources in Proteomics and became member of the Web-Team. In June 2011, he joined Web-Team/Vital-IT. He is currently involved in e-learning, helpdesk for proteomic resources, World-2D PAGE repository and Bioinformatics Core Facility for Proteomics (analysis of 2-DE gel images).

is a Physics engineer. He studied at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne and obtained his diploma in theoretical Physics in 2001 on Random matrices. He then worked on a PhD Thesis applying High Performance Computing in the field of Quantum Chaos. During his studies, he also worked as a part-time software programmer and system administrator for several small businesses.

studied undergraduate biochemistry at the University of Glasgow and obtained a PhD in molecular genetics from the University of Lausanne in 1987. After post-doctoral research on signal transduction and cell biology in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, he joined Novartis AG as a bioinformatics specialist. Continuing in bioinformatics, he returned to academia in 1999 as part of the recently created OIT group of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Lausanne, and was subsequently appointed Associate Investigator in the LICR Computational Genomics Group. He joined the Vital-IT group as a Senior Scientist in January 2011.

is a computer scientist and specialist in Grid, distributed and high-performance computing. He previously worked in the domain of high-energy physics at CERN (Geneva) and SLAC (USA) in various technical and coordination functions. He joined Vital-IT in 2006 to work for the EMBRACE Grid project. Currently, he coordinates the SIB Web Team that is in charge of ExPASy as well as other projects. He is part of the SIB's IT Coordination Team (CIT). He was a member of the Executive Board of the Swiss National Grid Association (SwiNG). Heinz was appointed «Privatdozent» at the University of Vienna (Faculty of Computer Science), where he was leading the Research Lab for Computational Technologies and Applications in 2005. Heinz holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Business Administration from the University of Vienna, Austria. He is also a PMI-certified  Project Management Professional (PMP). Details on his personal web-site.

has a hybrid background in both medicine (Federal Diploma in Medicine obtained in Geneva back in 2005) and bioinformatics (joint Master in Bioinformatics and Proteomics obtained in Geneva in 2009). Ivan has strong interests in Medical Imaging and in general purpose programming on graphic cards (GPGPU). He joined Vital-IT in January 2013 and currently is in charge of software packaging and deploying on the Vital-IT cluster.

obtaining his Federal Diploma in IGES, administrative data processing, in Neuchâtel. He has being working as a system engineer, network administrator and web developper since 2000. He was involved in various projects like consultant for Nestlé and Orange. In 2010 he graduated in Web Project Management in Lausanne. Since 2011 he is part of the Vital-IT system administration team.

obtained a master's degree in computer science from the University of Basel in 2010. She joined Vital-IT and the Lausanne Genomic Technologies Facility (UNIL) in 2010. She is involved in microarray data analysis for SIB projects and for external clients.